Book Of Hafis – The Unlimited (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THAT thou can't never end, doth make thee great,And that thou ne'er beginnest, is thy fate.Thy song is changeful as ...
THAT thou can't never end, doth make thee great,And that thou ne'er beginnest, is thy fate.Thy song is changeful as ...
SISTER of the first-born light,Type of sorrowing gentleness!Quivering mists in silv'ry dressFloat around thy features bright;When thy gentle foot is ...
WHO trusts in God,Fears not His rod.——-THIS truth may be by all believed:Whom God deceives, is well deceived.——-HOW? when? and ...
ON yonder lofty mountainA thousand times I stand,And on my staff reclining,Look down on the smiling land.My grazing flocks then ...
PASSION brings reason—who can pacifyAn anguish'd heart whose loss hath been so great?Where are the hours that fled so swiftly ...
WHO never eat with tears his bread,Who never through night's heavy hoursSat weeping on his lonely bed,--He knows you not, ...
ONE day a shameless and impudent wightWent into a shop full of steel wares bright,Arranged with art upon ev'ry shelf.He ...
HAND in hand! and lip to lip!Oh, be faithful, maiden dear!Fare thee well! thy lover's shipPast full many a rock ...
As a fisher-boy I faredTo the black rock in the sea,And, while false gifts I prepared.Listen'd and sang merrily,Down descended ...
Far from the feasting, in the bedroomSits loyal Amor and quakes with dread:What if the guests become too zestful,Break the ...
I AM the bard known far and wide,The travell'd rat-catcher beside;A man most needful to this town,So glorious through its ...
HOPE provides wings to thought, and love to hope.Rise up to Cynthia, love, when night is clearest,And say, that as ...
DREADED Brama, lord of might!All proceed from thee alone;Thou art he who judgeth right!Dost thou none but Brahmins own?Do but ...
I SLEPT,—'twas midnight,—in my bosom woke,As though 'twere day, my love-o'erflowing heart;To me it seemed like night, when day first ...
How, in the light of morning,Round me thou glowest,Spring, thou beloved one!With thousand-varying loving blissThe sacred emotionsBorn of thy warmth ...
WHILE he is mark'd by vision clearWho fathoms Nature's treasures,The man may follow, void of fear,Who her proportions measures.Though for ...
DRINK, oh youth, joy's purest rayFrom thy loved one's eyes all day,And her image paint at night!Better rule no lover ...
THE soul of manResembleth water:From heaven it cometh,To heaven it soareth.And then againTo earth descendeth,Changing ever.Down from the loftyRocky wallStreams ...
IN Thule lived a monarch,Still faithful to the grave,To whom his dying mistressA golden goblet gave.Beyond all price he deem'd ...
WHEREFORE drag me to yon glittering eddy, With resistless might?Was I, then, not truly blest already In the silent night?In my secret ...
CHORDS are touch'd by Apollo,--the death-laden bow, too, he bendeth;While he the shepherdess charms, Python he lays in the dust.-----WHAT ...
AT midnight hour I went, not willingly,A little, little boy, yon churchyard past,To Father Vicar's house; the stars on highOn ...
THE bed of flowersLoosens amain,The beauteous snowdropsDroop o'er the plain.The crocus opensIts glowing bud,Like emeralds others,Others, like blood.With saucy gesturePrimroses ...
OVER the meadows, and down the stream,And through the garden-walks straying,He plucks the flowers that fairest seem;His throbbing heart brooks ...
WHEN Minerva, to give pleasureTo Prometheus, her well-loved one,Brought a brimming bowl of nectarFrom the glorious realms of heavenAs a ...
WE young people in the shadeSat one sultry day;Cupid came, and "Dies the Fox"With us sought to play.Each one of ...
ONCE a boy a Rosebud spied,Heathrose fair and tender,All array'd in youthful pride,—Quickly to the spot he hied,Ravished by her ...
ZEPHYR, for thy humid wing,Oh, how much I envy thee!Thou to him canst tidings bringHow our parting saddens me!In my ...
WHO will hear me? Whom shall I lament to?Who would pity me that heard my sorrows?Ah, the lip that erst ...
A YOUNG fig-tree its form lifts highWithin a beauteous garden;And see, a goat is sitting by.As if he were its ...
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